Reflect some of the ways that you want to assess your students, i.e. monitor their level of understanding what you're teaching.
There are a few ways that I have been assessing my students. Throughout all of my lessons, I am continuously asking questions and having the students participate in the lesson. When I have them do group work, I walk around the room and monitor that every is doing their part and does not have questions for me. As far as student work, I collect their classwork and give them a daily work grade for participation, which usually is an A as long as they completed the work and it is not missing anything. This also lets the students know that what they are doing in class is going to count for them. I give homework that is a reflection of what we are doing that day and I give journal questions at the beginning of each class to reintegrate what we learned last class and lead in to what we will be learning that class.
Describe your grading policy, i.e. how you will assign scores to represent performance. Explain why you are choosing to use this method. If you are continuing your CT's grading policy, explain what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
I am going to be using my CT's grading policy. She has daily work/ homework as a certain percentage, notebook and lab reports as 25% of their grade, and Tests and Quizzes as a certain percentage (the exact calculation is at school). I think that the strengths of this grading policy is that the students are used to it. They record all of their grades when we hand back papers and they understand how they are being evaluated as well as what their grade is at all times. The weakness would be that a program is necessary to calculate the grade on the spot and, although she counts big tests and lab reports a few times, the assignments are not weighted. I am going to stick with my CT's policy because she used a certain program that I will also use and I do not want to change what what the students are used to.
Reflect some of the ways that you want to assess your students, i.e. monitor their level of understanding what you're teaching.
There are a few ways that I have been assessing my students. Throughout all of my lessons, I am continuously asking questions and having the students participate in the lesson. When I have them do group work, I walk around the room and monitor that every is doing their part and does not have questions for me. As far as student work, I collect their classwork and give them a daily work grade for participation, which usually is an A as long as they completed the work and it is not missing anything. This also lets the students know that what they are doing in class is going to count for them. I give homework that is a reflection of what we are doing that day and I give journal questions at the beginning of each class to reintegrate what we learned last class and lead in to what we will be learning that class.
Describe your grading policy, i.e. how you will assign scores to represent performance. Explain why you are choosing to use this method. If you are continuing your CT's grading policy, explain what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
I am going to be using my CT's grading policy. She has daily work/ homework as a certain percentage, notebook and lab reports as 25% of their grade, and Tests and Quizzes as a certain percentage (the exact calculation is at school). I think that the strengths of this grading policy is that the students are used to it. They record all of their grades when we hand back papers and they understand how they are being evaluated as well as what their grade is at all times. The weakness would be that a program is necessary to calculate the grade on the spot and, although she counts big tests and lab reports a few times, the assignments are not weighted. I am going to stick with my CT's policy because she used a certain program that I will also use and I do not want to change what what the students are used to.